After you’ve worked on Photo Art in Photoshop for a while, you realize that there really is no one-button solution that looks like a real painting. You really have to work on your photo using multiple filters and/or paint on multiple layers with brushes. This is an excellent tutorial but requires some patience to learn the technique.
Unfortunately, there’s no narrative. However, there is a written step-by-step instruction page at: http://pike.jimdo.com/piker-watercolor-tutorial. The written instructions are not an exact copy of what’s in the video so you’ll have to pay attention to both.
As with many Photo Art techniques, this will not work well with all photos. You’ll have to use some trial and error. If the technique doesn’t work with a particular photo, try another. I’ve used it and it does work with the right original.
Enjoy!
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Two of my artistic interests are photography and art. Now, I find that I can combine these interests by creating artistic creations from photos. I created this site to display my photos and photo art.
I use several programs and Photoshop plug-ins to manipulate the photos. Some of the artwork here was created for a group on Yahoo called DigitalNuts. A new set of photos is posted to their Weekly Nutcracker each Wednesday and the members post their artwork created from those photos. I've learned a lot from that group and highly recommend it if you are interested in creating art from photos.
I hope you enjoy viewing my work.
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I just found your website and I know I am going to love it. Please let me know about new posts.
I a unable to download the brushes from his site for some reason and have had no luck getting in touch with him. Do you happen to have the brushes downloaded and are able to provide a fresh link. Would be greatly appreciated. thanks!!
Would love to receive any news of what you are doing. You are a wonderful artist.